Baker v. Powell

STOKES, Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellees, Owen C. Powell and wife, in the district court of Floyd county, against appellants, Artie Baker and the First National Bank of Lockney, to cancel a note in the sum of $2,000 and a mechanic’s lien contract creating a lien on 280.95 acres of land in Lubbock county owned by appellees and occupied by them as their homestead. The note and lien were executed by appellees to appellant Artie Baker, and represented the purchase price of an irrigation plant to be installed on the land by Baker. The pumping equipment was guaranteed for a period of…